Watch a virtual user during a schedule run


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Overview

During a schedule run, you can select any virtual user and watch that user's real-time browser. Watching the real-time browser lets you investigate the status of individual virtual users while they are running. You can determine whether a run is valid despite the occurrence of individual virtual user failures. Watching a virtual user during a run is useful in the following situations:


Watch a virtual user during a schedule run

  1. Run the schedule: Right-click the schedule, and then click Run > Run Schedule.

  2. In the Protocol Data view, click (Watch Virtual User icon).

  3. In the window...

      Select Virtual User to Watch

    ...select the user group containing the user.

  4. Select the virtual user number in the user group or at a particular location (agent) on which the user group runs, and click OK.

    Option Description
    Specify a user inside this user group The window lists the ranges of active users in the group. Specify a user number within the listed ranges.

    This option is useful when to watch any user, or a particular user, in a specific user group. This might be the case if you have run the schedule before, examined the test log, and know the number of the virtual user to see.

    For example, a schedule that uses a datapool of user names might run correctly for the first 10 users but issue verification point failures for the remaining users. In this case, you watch user number 11.

    Indexed user on location See a user running at a specific location. Enter an index between 1 and the number of users at that location. This number is mapped to a virtual user number, which is displayed in the title of the Event Log tab.

    You enter an indexed number rather than a specific user number because not only are the actual user numbers spread out between locations (User 1 might be at Location A, Users 2 and 3 at Location B, and so on) but also a user's location can vary from run to run (User 3 might run on Location A during one run and Location B during the next run).

  5. In the Protocol Data view, click the Browser tab.

    Only pages loaded while watching the virtual user are displayed; pages that have been loaded before live rendering began are not available. However, the data that you see is also available in the test log after the run completes. This data is always available, regardless of the test log preferences set in the schedule.

  6. Click an icon for the virtual user.

    Icon Description
    (Pause)
    (Play)
    (Back)
    (Forward)
    Navigation actions, which let you move among pages.

    (Stop Watching)

    Stop monitoring the current user. Clicking this icon does not stop the user from running.

    (Watch Virtual User)

    Change from one user to another.

    You can add virtual users during the run and watch the added users.


Related

  1. HTTP debugging overview
  2. Watch a virtual user during a test run
  3. Replay a virtual user after a run completes
  4. View the playback summary of a virtual user
  5. Inspect HTTP test logs in the Protocol Data view
  6. Manage HTTP information in the Protocol Data view